Platt,
Take out the sentence fragments "in his mind" and the
quote still makes sense. I reckon Mr. Pirsig is simply
using the vernacular, without worrying about every
little semantic detail.
"The theory had arrived several months ago with the
statement, "All life is a migration of static patterns
of quality toward Dynamic Quality." It had been
boiling around in his thought-pot ever since."
(Although the last sentence is a metaphor and requires
a container ;) mind will do, or a pot!)
I have no need for a mind in my metaphysics yet. If I
find a good candidate referent for the word "mind",
you'll be the first to know.
what do I know :)
André
--- Platt Holden <pholden@sc.rr.com> wrote: > Hi
Andre:
>
> > I don't know of a thing called mind. As far as I
> know,
> > there is no such thing. Sorry.
>
> No need to apologize. But I wonder what you think
> Pirsig means when
> he uses the word "mind" in LILA, like in the
> following example:
>
>
> "The theory had arrived in his mind several months
> ago with the
> statement, "All life is a migration of static
> patterns of quality toward
> Dynamic Quality." It had been boiling around in his
> mind ever since."
> (Chap. 11)
>
> Platt
>
>
>
>
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